Mandy asks…
How can I improve my job hunting tips website?
I created the website with the intention of sharing with others everything and anything I can regarding the full time job of looking for a job. I welcome comments and I hope to finish it soon. www.needajobnowdammit.com
Robin West answers:
I’d suggest dropping the font size a bit and getting rid of the bolding on your text.
Also, try to avoid using centered text. Left-aligned paragraphs with a reasonable left margin will look much better.
Maria asks…
any job hunting tips for college student?
i am a college student. (broke of course)
i don’t have much experience other than a few months at a self-serve yogurt place.
i would prefer NOT to work with the food industry and dealing with customers again.
i’m a car person and i’ve been trying to find a job in that sector. like at local car dealerships. i plan to see if america’s tire co. is hiring. i guess i’m a general labor kind of guy.
any tips on what i can do? i really need to make some money this summer. :
help!
Robin West answers:
A car dealership is a good start if you know enough about the brand of care that lot has to sell. I might also recommend if you like working with your hands in general labor looking into vehicle bone/scrap yards. These places tend to need people to sort the cars and physically remove both good or destroyed parts from them. If you are able to work on cars in a more engineering sense perhaps a small garage that does not require degree’s in automobiles doing simple things such as tuning, oil changes, tire replacement, and so forth. If you can deal being around car parts but still have to interact with people I would also look to places such as “AutoZone” and other such companies.
William asks…
Any job-hunting tips for people with social anxiety?
Nobody seems to want to hire a shy/socially anxious girl like me. Any tips on how I can be more confident? I’ve heard many times that I just have to pretend to be someone else and metaphorically “wear a mask”, so that might be my only option.
Robin West answers:
Our real selves are made up of thoughts, dreams, beliefs, fears, hopes, plans, madness, respect, spirit, frustration, joy, longing, disappointment, hallucinations, doubts, opinions, intuitions, ideas, ecstasy and other attitudes and states, all of which are invisible. That is, our real person, our real self, is invisible and unknowable to others, who see and hear only our exterior self. It is the impossibility of being our real self that makes for social anxiety, as social life is normally made up only with exterior selves (clothes, make-up, hair, etc). Your first step is to recognize that no one at a new job is ever going to know who you are, that you will have to wear the mask and pretend to be a satisfied employee. Our real selves want to know what life is about, why we live and have doubts and anxiety, where to find the answers which will give us a meaning (and so many jobs are basically meaningless).
But one has to eat and pay bills, usually. If you do not, why not keep on studying, read some philosophy. If that is not possible, get a job something like making coffee, where you do not have to pretend too much as all your meetings will be superficial.
The sources cited have much to say about anxiety and our search for the real self.
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